What Separates Me and You

Chapter 184 Was This How She Begged You

Lewis clasped Josephine’s hand again and slowly said, “Come with me. We’ll get the divorce certificate after your wounds are healed.”

Josephine slowly looked up after hearing this.

“Can we go now?”

Josephine lowered her eyes again and stared at her toes.

Lewis brought her to the car and helped her fasten her seat belts. Then, he went to the driver’s seat and drove out of the mansion’s compound.

When they arrived back at Styx Mansion, Lewis brought out the first aid kit and cleaned Josephine’s hands of the blood stains with the disinfectant.

Josephine sat motionless on the sofa, permitting Lewis’ actions.

He was very gentle, but Josephine still cringed when the alcohol touched the wounds on her fingertips.

“Stay still. Bear with me,” said Lewis as he held her hand steadfastly. Although he tried his best to be careful when disinfecting her wounds, Josephine would still tremble whenever the alcohol came in contact with them.

She could remember clearly the anguish she felt when the needle penetrated her fingertips.

She couldn’t put the pain into words, but she felt she could understand why their forefathers. would think the fingers are connected to the heart.

As enraged as Lewis had been, he had never treated her this way.

The most brutal act Lewis did to her was merely locking her up.

After Lewis cleaned her hands, he observed three of her fingernails were red with an easily discerned thin line of blood running through the middle.

He had a dangerous glint in his eyes that quickly disappeared.

After he finished applying medication to Josephine’s wounds, she was again covered in sweat, and her face was as pale as chalk

“It’s done.”

Josephine kept her head lowered all the time. When she heard him, she quietly withdrew her hand.

Lewis raised his hand to touch her face, but she turned her head slightly and dodged his hand.

a word, Lewis stared fixedly at her

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said,

he promptly left, closing the door after him-locking it behind him, to be

look at the door. The door had closed off any remnants of light

entered the room was

fingers. Her little finger, index finger, and middle finger

came right after. Following

the willow tree in the lawn, breaking off

knees tightly, her

Mrs. Harrold to the muddy ground. Rain soaked her thoroughly, and

from the ground and tried

when someone captured her and brought her here, wherever it

in the torrent. She could only hear dogs barking

or the heavy rain pounding on her, the weight was too heavy

a few steps before crashing to

They stood like statues in the

She stumbled and crawled, trying to find a way out, but when she fell again, a pair of leather shoes appeared

stained those

squinted as she looked up-it was Lewis. Phineas held the umbrella for him as his condescending eyes were fixated on Mrs. Harrold, his face void of emotions.

begged for mercy. “Master Lewis, it’s all my fault, I merely followed Mrs. Alvarez’s orders and didn’t do it out of my own will. Please forgive me, Master Lewis. I

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Mrs. Alvarez’s instructions. Master

Master Lewis. I beg you. I don’t want

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years Roery maid in the household sucked up to her,

and about.

never crossed her mind she would end up like this, less so Lewis having the

pleas rang loud and clear in the smattering rain, but Lewis seemed to nothing. His face remained emotionless as he stood there while

a cold voice above her saying, “Was this how she begged you,

face more evident than before. She shook he frantically as she answered, “No! No,

“Of course not! She can’t even speak, let alone beg!” He abruptly raised his leg and kicked her, toppling her over. He pressed

difficulty. The pressure on her face increased, forcing her to swallow her remaining words.

look amiable